Types of Families

• What is it called when there is a multigenerational extended family household with many multiple generations

  A beanpole family
• What is called when the family household is run by one individual

  single parent family
• What is it the ideal image of a family called?

  Nuclear family
• What is it called when there is a household that consists of the same gender?

  Same-sex families
• What is it called when there is a household that consists of multiple generations?

  Extended family
• what is it called when two partners that aren't married live together?

  Cohabitation
• What is it called when the children have grown up and moved out ofthe household and now its only the parents?

  empty nest family
• What is it called when the man and wife have similar roles within the household?

  symmetrical family
• What is it called when the man is the breadwinner and the woman is the homemaker?

  conventional family
• What is it called when within the family the man and woman both earn money and have jobs?

  Neo-conventional family